NTSB Cites City, Event Organizer in Texas Accident

The National Transportation Safety Board recommended on Tuesday that U.S. cities and counties adopt enhanced safety measures for parades, after concluding that Midland, Texas, and the organizers of a parade for wounded veterans were most to blame for a deadly rail accident there last year.

The federal agency issued its recommendation when it announced the results of its investigation into the Nov. 15 accident, in which a Union Pacific freight train traveling about 62 miles an hour collided with a parade float carrying...